As course developers gain experience and as the number of online courses grows, the
importance and necessity of metadata standards becomes more apparent. The cost of …

The administration and exchange of metadata is a central activity in systems that manage
learning objects. Metadata considerations are fundamental when creating interoperable e …

Interest in learning objects (LOs) in education has been growing steadily since the late
1990s. This interest is coming primarily from educators who have experience in putting their …

A wide range of projects and organizations is currently making digital learning resources
(learning objects) available to instructors, students, and designers via systematic, standards …

The vision of reusable digital learning resources or objects, made accessible through
coordinated repository architectures and metadata technologies, has gained considerable …

BACKGROUND This is a special issue on the topic of metadata. An often-cited definition of
metadata isdata about data'. In most cases, this means data that describe documents, for …

In this article, a short review of the new trends in Learning Objects is outlined. Due to
outdated working methods, electronic educational documentation (on the Web or not) is still …

The issues of portability and re-use are key challenges for learning technology. A major
effort has been directed towards the development of standards that will enable …

During the past few years the term learning object is widely used in the discussion
concerning educational information systems. Generally the term is understood to be a digital …

This paper presents a research agenda on Learning Objects. The main intent is to elaborate
on what the authors consider important issues for research on learning objects and their use …